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Separating together, how divorce transforms families, Abigail J. Stewart [and others]

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Separating together, how divorce transforms families, Abigail J. Stewart [and others]
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) and index
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illustrations
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Separating together
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
36713056
Responsibility statement
Abigail J. Stewart [and others]
Sub title
how divorce transforms families
Summary
Based on a unique longitudinal study of 100 divorcing families with school-age children, this book argues that popular images of divorce - including those shared by many psychologists - are too individualistic, too negative, and too universalizing about an experience that can be very different for men and women, parents and children, and different kinds of families. The authors illuminate both the positive and negative effects of divorce on family members and family relationships during the first year after parental separation, offering a nuanced, empirically grounded examination of divorce as a family system event. Integrating compelling quantitative and qualitative data into a comprehensive conceptual framework, this volume will be received with interest by professionals studying and working with families
Table Of Contents
pt. 1. The Psychological Experience of Parental Divorce. 1. Changing Our Minds about Parental Divorce. 2. Studying Family Transformation: Research Designs and the Family Changes Project. 3. The Parents' Stories: The End of a Marriage and a New Beginning. 4. The Children's Stories -- pt. 2. How Individual Family Members Adapt to Parental Separation. 5. Parents Adjusting after the Separation: What Helped? 6. Beyond the "Effects of Divorce on Children": Uncovering and Understanding Complexity -- pt. 3. Family Dyads, Adjustment, and Change. 7. The Mother-Child Relationship: Insider and Outsider Views. 8. When the Conflict Continues: Implications of Parental Conflict in the Postseparation Family. 9. Patterns of Conflict and Parenting in Divorcing Couples -- pt. 4. Parental Divorce as a Family Transformation. 10. Families after Separation: Changing Systems. 11. Wise Families, Wise Changes
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